Torah Study Date Saturday, February 18, 2023 Verses Covered Exodus (Sh’mot) 3:1-6 Next Session Saturday, February 25, 2023 Starting at Exodus 3:7 Previously, we discussed the Egyptian King dying, the Israelites groaning under hard labor, God hearing them, remembering his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and knowing. Last week, we discussed Moses shepherding for […]
The Death of Jacob
Deborah Achtenberg 2023 Torah Study Abraham, Eliyahu Gorgi, Ephron, Isaac, Jacob, Jami, Joseph, Leah, Pharaoh, Potiphar, Rebecca, Sarah, YHVH, Zulaika
Torah Study Date Saturday, January 7, 2023 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 49:29-50:14 Next Session Saturday, January 14, 2023 Starting at Genesis 50:15 Last week we discussed the death of Jacob. We noted the emphasis on being gathered: Jacob says he is being gathered to his people; the text says that when he finished speaking, he […]
Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Menassah 2
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abraham, Ephraim, Isaac, Issachar, Jacob, Joseph, Marc Chagall, Menassah, YHVH, Zebulun
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 29, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 48:15-49:2 Next Session Saturday, November 12, 2022 Starting at Genesis 49:3 Last week we discussed Jacob blessing Joseph and wondered why it does not seem that he blesses Joseph but only blesses Joseph’s sons, Ephraim and Menassah (could this show that this event just […]
Joseph Swears to Jacob
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abraham, Ephraim, Israela Lev, Jacob, Joseph, Menassah, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 15, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 47:29-48:2 Next Session Saturday, October 22, 2022 Starting at Genesis 48:3 Last week we discussed Jacob, in his hundred forty-seventh year (his seventeenth and final year in Egypt), telling Joseph to put his hand under Jacob’s thigh and practice kindness and faithfulness by not […]
Joseph Stores the Grain
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abraham, Asenath, Ephraim, Joseph, Manassah, Pharaoh, Siona Benjamin, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 18, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 41:46-56 Next Session Saturday, July 2, 2022 Starting at Genesis 41:57 Last week, we discussed Joseph, during the abundant years, putting in each city the grain of the fields around it and noted that he did not store it all with the Pharaoh, showing […]
Purification and Name Change
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abraham, Deborah, Esau, Jacob, Rebecca, Sheila Nemtin, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, February 19, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 35:1-35:12 Next Session Saturday, February 26, 2022 Starting at Genesis 35:13 Last week we discussed God telling Jacob to go up to Bethel, live there, and build an altar to God. We discussed the significance of building an altar and wondered whether we have […]
Struggling with God and People
Deborah Achtenberg 2022 Torah Study Abraham, Esau, Isaac, Jacob, Jacob Steinhardt, Laban, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, January 15, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 32:22-32:33 Next Session Saturday, January 22, 2022 Starting at Genesis 33:1 Last week we discussed Jacob taking his maidservants, wives, and children and crossing the Jabbok ford and noted the text refers to eleven children when there actually were twelve (eleven sons and one […]
Angels Show Jacob the Way to the Heavens
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Basemath, Bethuel, El Shaddai, Esau, Ishmael, Jacob, Judith, Mahalat, Nebaioth, Rebecca, Victor Majzner, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 16, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 28:1-28:19 Next Session Saturday, October 23, 2021 Starting at Genesis 28:20 Last week, we discussed Isaac blessing Jacob and why he was blessing Jacob a second time (maybe because he was going on a journey), instructing him not to marry a Canaanite woman (following […]
Esau Wants a Blessing, Too
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, Mahalat, Rabbi Yehuda, Rebecca, Siona Benjamin, YHVH
Torah Study Date Saturday, October 9, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 27:26-46 Next Session Saturday, October 16, 2021 Starting at Genesis 28:1 Last week we discussed Isaac continuing to try to figure out whether the one before him is Esau or not by asking him to come close and kiss Isaac, Isaac finding his smell […]
Isaac Digs Up Abraham’s Wells
Deborah Achtenberg 2021 Torah Study Abimelech, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Reuven Rubin
Torah Study Date Saturday, September 4, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 26:18-34 Next Session Saturday, September 25, 2021 Starting at Genesis 26:35 I wasn’t present at our last Torah Study but three angels—some interpreters say it was four angels–came to me and told me we discussed Isaac re-digging the wells that had been dug during […]